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at-date

Simple Python library for parsing at command string into datetime objects.

Content

• Installation
• Guide
  • Basic Usage
  • Function parse
  • At date string
  • At date tokens
    • time
    • date
    • increment
    • now
    • month
    • weekday
    • period
• Final notes

Installation

At-date requires Python 3.4 or higher.

You can install package using pip:

pip install atdate

Or with pipenv:

pipenv install atdate

If you want to use latest unreleased version use the code from master branch:

git clone git@github.com:destag/at-date.git
cd at-date/
python setup.py install

Guide

Basic Usage

To start using at-date import parse function and provide valid at date string.

>>> from atdate import parse

>>> parse('noon next day')
datetime.datetime(2018, 10, 11, 12, 0)

>>> parse('now + 8 hours')
datetime.datetime(2018, 10, 10, 15, 42, 24)

Or you can use AtDateParser object.

>>> from atdate import AtDateParser

>>> parser = AtDateParser()
>>> parser.execute('now + 8 hours')
datetime.datetime(2018, 10, 10, 15, 42, 24)

Function parse

Parses string in at date format to valid datetime object.

Arguments:

• at_date_string (str): Valid at date string.

Returns:

• datetime.datetime: Date and time to which string has been parsed.

At date string

Valid at date string consists of tokens which can be in order:

tokens	example
time	17:32
time date	17:32 11/22/2033
time increment	17:32 next day
time date increment	17:32 11/22/2033 next day
date	11/22/2033
date increment	11/22/2033 next month
now	now
now increment	now next day

At date tokens

These are valid formats for at date string tokens.

time

Format for describing time.

format	example
[00-23] [00-59]	1732
[0-23] : [0-59]	17:32
[00-12] [00-59] [am|pm]	0532 pm
[0-12] : [0-59] [am|pm]	5:32 pm
[noon|midnight]	noon

date

Format for describing date.

format	example
[month][1-31]	october 27
[1-12] / [1-31]	10/27
[1-12] / [1-31] / [0-9999]	10/27/2006
[1-12] . [1-31]	10.27
[1-12] . [1-31] . [0-9999]	10.27.2006

increment

Format for describing time incrementation.

format	example
next [period]	next month
+ [0-9999] [period]	+ 12 minutes

now

Format for this token is literally now.

Returns actual date and time.

month

Month name is case insensitive. You can use whole name or shortcut. All months with shortcuts are listed in table.

name	shortcut
january	jan
february	feb
march	mar
april	apr
may	may
june	jun
july	jul
august	aug
september	sep
october	oct
november	nov
december	dec

weekday

Weekday name is case insensitive. You can use whole name or shortcut. All weekdays with shortcuts are listed in table.

name	shortcut
monday	mon
tuesday	tue
wednesday	wed
thursday	thu
friday	fri
saturday	sat
sunday	sun

period

Format for describing period of time. Can end with s. All possible formats are listed in table.

name	s
minute	minutes
hour	hours
day	days
week	weeks
month	months
year	years

Final notes

Thank you for using at-date. If you found any bugs, have a question or want a feature to be added feel free to open issue on GitHub.